Reuters: Guardian says being sued by Iraqi intelligence

Posted on 29 May, 2009 by Martin Stabe

"Iraq's intelligence service is suing the Guardian newspaper for defamation, after it ran a story describing Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's administration as 'increasingly autocratic,' the newspaper said."

Reuters: Reuters seeks U.S. army video of staff killed in Iraq

Posted on 13 July, 2008 by Martin Stabe

"Reuters wants all the materials to be able to study what happened. Access to the video, taken from helicopters involved in the attack, could also help improve Reuters' safety policies in Iraq, the world's most dangerous country for journalists."

New York Times: Behind TV Analysts, Pentagon’s Hidden Hand

Posted on 20 April, 2008 by Martin Stabe

"Hidden behind that appearance of objectivity, though, is a Pentagon information apparatus that has used those analysts in a campaign to generate favorable news coverage of the administration’s wartime performance, an examination by The New York Times h

Guardian: Death, destruction and fear on the streets of cafes, poets and booksellers

Posted on 17 March, 2008 by Martin Stabe

"Ghaith Abdul-Ahad has been shortlisted for foreign correspondent of the year in the British Press Awards. He will be filing a series of remarkable profiles of ordinary Iraqis every day this week."

TheyWorkForYou.com: Written Ministerial Statements: Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (18 February 2008)

Posted on 20 February, 2008 by Martin Stabe

David Miliband: "In accordance with the Information Tribunal's decision of 22 January 2008, I have today released what has been described as John Williams' draft of the September 2002 Iraq weapons of mass destruction dossier."

Independent: Freedom Of Information: Facebook – the new battleground in Iraq and Afghanistan

Posted on 9 February, 2008 by Martin Stabe

"The MoD warns that "more discipline" and "greater enforcement" of military conduct rules is necessary to tackle "the publishing of unauthorised content on unofficial channels . . ." [like YouTube and social networking sites]."

E&P: ‘NYT’ Probes Its Reporters and Their Spouses — In Iraq and In Ethical Minefields

Posted on 20 January, 2008 by Martin Stabe

"[The public editor's] piece examines charges that the paper's well-known legal reporter Linda Greenhouse should excuse herself from covering stories that may have some link to the work of her husband, a lawyer involved in work on behalf of Gitmo prisoner

E&P: ‘NYT’ Probes Its Reporters and Their Spouses — In Iraq and In Ethical Minefields

Posted on 20 January, 2008 by Martin Stabe

AP report: Hussein is journalist

Posted on 22 November, 2007 by Martin Stabe

"A series of accusations raised by the U.S. military against an Associated Press photographer detained for 19 months in Iraq are false or meaningless, according to an intensive AP investigation of the case made public Wednesday."

Washington Post: Directors say war films make up for poor reporting

Posted on 15 November, 2007 by Martin Stabe

"Two Hollywood directors who are part of a wave of films about the war in Iraq and the broader fallout from the September 11, 2001 attacks have said they were only doing what media failed to do -- telling the truth."

New Yorker: Shifting Targets: The Adminstration’s plan for Iran

Posted on 30 September, 2007 by Martin Stabe

Seymour Hersh's latest: "This summer, the White House, pushed by the office of Vice-President Dick Cheney, requested that the Joint Chiefs of Staff redraw long-standing plans for a possible attack on Iran, according to former officials and government cons

The Huffington Post: CBS: Sy Hersh To Report U.S. Planning Iran Military Action

Posted on 30 September, 2007 by Martin Stabe

This certainly sounds very, very plausible: "we understand there's an article coming out in The New Yorker next week, Sy Hirsch [sic] talking about plans the Administration is making to go into Iran in a military way."

Spiegel Online: Interview with Investigative Journalist Seymour Hersh: ‘The President Has Accepted Ethnic Cleansing

Posted on 30 September, 2007 by Martin Stabe

Hersh: "I'm asked the question all the time: What happened to my old paper, the New York Times? And I now say, they stink. They missed it. They missed the biggest story of the time and they're going to have to live with it."

Telegraph: Why New York hasn’t been attacked again

Posted on 11 September, 2007 by Martin Stabe

Judith Miller -- now described as a "contributing editor of Manhattan Institute's City Journal" -- is published in the Telegraph.

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Category Archives: Iraq

Reuters: Guardian says being sued by Iraqi intelligence

Reuters: Reuters seeks U.S. army video of staff killed in Iraq

New York Times: Behind TV Analysts, Pentagon’s Hidden Hand

Guardian: Death, destruction and fear on the streets of cafes, poets and booksellers

TheyWorkForYou.com: Written Ministerial Statements: Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (18 February 2008)

Independent: Freedom Of Information: Facebook – the new battleground in Iraq and Afghanistan

E&P: ‘NYT’ Probes Its Reporters and Their Spouses — In Iraq and In Ethical Minefields

E&P: ‘NYT’ Probes Its Reporters and Their Spouses — In Iraq and In Ethical Minefields

AP report: Hussein is journalist

Washington Post: Directors say war films make up for poor reporting

New Yorker: Shifting Targets: The Adminstration’s plan for Iran

The Huffington Post: CBS: Sy Hersh To Report U.S. Planning Iran Military Action

Spiegel Online: Interview with Investigative Journalist Seymour Hersh: ‘The President Has Accepted Ethnic Cleansing

Telegraph: Why New York hasn’t been attacked again